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As its own title indicates, this special issue is devoted to the Application of Software Engineering Techniques to Improve the Reliability of Intelligent Environments (ASET2IRIE). Although this is a follow-up special issue connected to the 5th International Workshop on the Reliability of Intelligent Environments (WoRIE 2016),1 which seeks to strengthen and make more visible the close relationship existing between this journal and the workshop, there was an open call for papers so that any researcher working on the topics addressed, regardless of whether or not s/he had participated in the mentioned workshop, could submit articles to this special issue. In fact, only one of the four selected articles to be published in this special issue corresponds to an extension of a paper presented at WoRIE 2016. The main purpose of this workshop is to serve as a forum to discuss the state of the art, trends and novelties onmethodologies, techniques and tools to improve the reliability, safety and security of Intelligent Environments (IE). It also intends to build solid bridges of collaboration among the researches and practitioners belonging to the different communities involved in the research and development of IE. This special issue aims to expand in a more detailed way some of the most exciting and challenging topics addressed in the work-